Costa Mesa’s bridge of sighs
Every time it comes up, and I’ve lived in Costa Mesa for 16 years
now, it’s the final time. It’s going to be deleted from the county
plan; it’s going to go away. People don’t want it. People don’t want
it to destroy more wetlands and then, all the sudden, it turns out
... it comes back. So I think it’s time to finally remove it from the
county plan and find another issue in Costa Mesa.
SHARON BOUDREAU
Costa Mesa
The issue of a bridge on West 19th Street has been raised several
times over the last 15 years. Each time the vast majority of Westside
Costa Mesa residents have expressed their strong disapproval of a
bridge. To use Costa Mesa city money on yet another study of the
bridge would be foolish. The bridge will not be built.
RICHARD ROBERTSON
Costa Mesa
I read with interest your story on the Westside bridge, and Robert
Graham is at it again. That’s his whole life’s work, trying to get
that bridge in. We’ve beaten this subject to death. Many studies have
been made, and people, particularly in Huntington Beach and Costa
Mesa, have indicated they don’t want the bridge, and I think, really,
Robert Graham doesn’t belong on that committee. There’s so many
things to be looked at and done, and he keeps on bringing this bridge
up. What a waste of time.
JOHN PENNINO
Costa Mesa
We definitely are not in favor of any more studies about that
bridge. We’ve spent enough money on that already, and it’s not
needed. I wish Graham would not worry about his own interest at heart
and do the city streets and things that we need to have done.
WILMA BOUK
Costa Mesa
Absolutely not. We should not waste one more dollar on beating
this horse to death. We’ve found over the years, the only people who
want that bridge are the people who think they can make a profit on
businesses on 19th Street and the people who want to cut through to
Huntington Beach. We are tired of being a cut-through for Huntington
Beach and Westminster off the Costa Mesa Freeway. You can’t get
anywhere off of Victoria or Adams because of the traffic during rush
hour. You have to stop and wait for them to whip through there at 90
miles per hour. We don’t need another street in Costa Mesa with total
road rage.
Those streets are already ruined. We don’t even need to ruin a
third one. I hope, after all these decades of fighting this, somebody
at the City Council continues with Gary Monahan to stand up against
this.
NANCY NUNAN
Costa Mesa
I don’t want that. We have Pacific Coast Highway; we have
Victoria, and we have Adams bridges, and those are all within a mile
radius of each other; we certainly don’t need another bridge over
there. I think they can invest the money better repairing the
streets, getting rid of the parked cars on the streets, being able
for the street sweeper to come through and sweep the streets. We have
many parked cars on the sidewalk that never get moved, and police
don’t even enforce that. We don’t need another bridge. Spend the
money in other ways.
CHRIS STEWARD
Costa Mesa
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